| Cloaking is bad. unless from Omniture?
Omniture's Test & Target Service Seems Suspect |
shoffy
msg:4087408 | 10:04 pm on Feb 25, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Those not familiar with Omniture's Test & Target product, it let's you wrap DIVs around elements on your page that are switched out using JavaScript via a multivariant engine.
The idea is to test different items and create a better converting landing page. Even better, if certain audiences respond better to one premutation, it will deliver that one and a different premutation to a different audience.
What gets me though, is you can do this to any page of your site. You don't need to setup a special landing page, you can do this to your homepage if you'd like.
Isn't this cloaking by definition? Isn't this a "no no"?
What's to stop me from using Omnitures Test & Target to serve one form of the page to search engines and another to "regular" visitors?
I ask because I like the product, but fear unseen repercussions.
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incrediBILL
msg:4087961 | 6:08 pm on Feb 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
This is simple A/B testing, nothing special or cloaking about it unless it has a specific purpose to seed the search engine with content designed to deceive the user.
I don't see an issue, pretty tame stuff.
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